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The San Diego Padres acquired outfielder Wil Myers from the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday, a person with knowledge of the deal said. Myers was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2013, when he hit .293 with 13 homers with 53 runs batted in with Tampa Bay. But he was limited to 87 games last season because of a right wrist injury, and he hit .222 with six homers and 35 RBIs. There were multiple reports that Washington also was involved in the deal, but the person would not confirm the Nationals' involvement to the Associated Press. San Diego also receives catcher Ryan Hanigan and minor league pitchers Jose Castillo and Gerardo Reyes in the trade, with catcher Rene Rivera moving from the...

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The San Diego Padres acquired outfielder Wil Myers from the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday, a person with knowledge of the deal said.
Myers was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2013, when he hit .293 with 13 homers with 53 runs batted in with Tampa Bay. But...

Hundreds of front-office executives, managers, coaches and scouts will descend upon San Diego this week for Major League Baseball's annual winter meetings, all with the singular purpose of molding their teams into World Series contenders.
But what does a...

Joe Panik scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning on Aaron Barrett's bases-loaded wild pitch, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Washington Nationals 3-2 Tuesday night to return to the NL Championship Series.
The wild-card Giants won 3-1 in...

The aces went down in a hurry this October. Clayton Kershaw and David Price, gone. Stephen Strasburg and Max Scherzer, done. Zack Greinke and Justin Verlander, out. Jered Weaver and Jordan Zimmermann, see you in spring training.
The best starting pitcher...

A look at the National League Championship Series between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals:
SCHEDULE
Game 1: Saturday, 5 p.m.
San Francisco (Bumgarner 18-10, 2.98) at St. Louis (Wainwright 20-9, 2.38)
Game 2: Sunday, 5 p.m.
San...

This is not the postseason of the ace.
If pitching wins in October, the best pitching ought to win the most. Not this October.
Clayton Kershaw, the best pitcher on the planet? Two tries, no wins. Jon Lester and Stephen Strasburg? One try for each, no...

The Dodgers are going to the postseason and so, probably, are the San Francisco Giants.
As for where they’ll go and who they’ll play, that will be determined over the next few days. But the playoff pressure might already be making itself felt in both...

Considering the season is only a little more than a month old, the Dodgers went into their series opener against the San Francisco Giants on Thursday with an unusual sense of urgency.
A day that ended with the Giants scoring twice in the 10th inning to...

See, all things are possible.
The Dodgers were up by a run in the seventh inning, the Giants had a runner at second base, ace Clayton Kershaw got ahead in the count 0-2 on San Francisco’s Brandon Hicks and he promptly gave up a two-run homer. And some...

ON THE MOUND: Clayton Kershaw limited the Giants to three runs and seven hits over seven innings. The only real mistake he made was in the seventh inning, when he hung a curveball to Brandon Hicks, who sent it over the left-field wall for a two-run home...

SAN FRANCISCO — A.J. Ellis' three-run double in the ninth inning lifted the Dodgers to their second victory at AT&T Park in three days, a 4-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.
But one player in the Dodgers' clubhouse argued that Ellis'...

No matter how impossible it sounds, the Dodgers are making you think about it. About one of the great collapses in baseball history.
It all seems ridiculous and far-fetched and the stuff of the easily panicked, but after a 4-3 loss to the San Francisco...

The San Francisco Giants' Sergio Romo is probably best known for throwing the final pitch that helped the Giants win the 2012 World Series.
But the Giants' closer is also earning a reputation for his political activism. At the team’s victory parade, Romo...

A.J. Ellis drove in three runs with a two-out double in the ninth inning to help the Dodgers to a 4-1 victory Sunday in the rubber match of their three-game series with the Giants.
Ellis, who drove a 0-1 slider from Giants closer Sergio Romo into the...

With one final power surge before the All-Star break, first baseman Chris Davis earned a place in the record book.
Davis hit his 37th home run to tie the American League record for home runs before the break, and the Baltimore Orioles cruised past the...

Orange and black will be all over San Francisco on Wednesday--and not because it's Halloween. A ticker take parade is planned down Market Street for the Giants after they clinched the World Series on Sunday in a four-game sweep against the Detroit Tigers.

It was a typical championship parade for the San Francisco Giants: confetti fell to the streets, players waved and the crowd in orange and black roared. But pitcher Sergio Romo's T-shirt -- which said, "I Just Look Illegal" -- may be the most talked-about part

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